Soldiers who have faced child soldiers in combat, what challenges did you face?

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[@matthewkeith8605]

The little girl in story 11, she was completely terrified, she knew and had all that time.

[@brinazarski]

I’m completely ignorant to guns, self-defense, war… was a non-lethal shot not possible? Could they not have shot a leg or two? I’ve heard you shouldn’t fuck around with “less lethal” shots on an adult attacker because adrenaline might keep them going or whatever. But this is a child…

[@TheGhostFart]

@@brinazarski no you either shoot to kill or don't point your weapon at someone that you have no intention of potentially shooting to kill, wars are absolutely brutal and that type of thinking could easily get either you, your buddies or someone in a squad killed. the unfortunate truth is that as soon as someone takes up a weapon and shows some sort of intent to get involved in the conflict they lose their noncombatant status regardless of age.

[@Automaticguns1]

​@@brinazarski if the leg shot hits bone the kid is dead. leg shot goes through flesh the exit wound likely tear the kids leg in half or hits a bunch of the kids veins (because there legs are small) the kid maybe has 10 seconds before they bleed to death kid would be dead before the soldiers could even try to stop the bleeding. the only shot that might not kill a kid is if you can somehow hit there hand which is nearly impossible unless your in arms length of the kid so not practical

[@thekameru6058]

Its utterly disgusting. But when all said and done, the soldiers she was walking towards didn't do that to her. Her own countrymen did that to her. All that Sargent did was give her a cleaner death than what was in store for her, and spare his own men. The men sure as fuck didn't deserve getting smoked. They deserved a short lecture to hammer home about how that hesitation could have killed them all, and a bath.

[@brinazarski]

@@thekameru6058 i am talking about the countrymen.

[@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer]

Story 11 was so painful. I can't even imagine what she must have been thinking and feeling. Her family and friends sent her to die. The people that were supposed to love her. And yet, she was brave. She kept going, knowing that no matter the case, she would die. I'd admire it if it wasn't SO FUCKED UP. I wonder what would have happened if she had turned back. Would her family then kill her themselves? I wonder what they told her that was so dire she knew she couldn't turn away. She was so young. The real monsters are human.

[@brinazarski]

i really think they must've threatened to kill her, and probably told her she would burn in hell or some fucked up shit. i hate humans.

[@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer]

@@brinazarski From what I know, sacrificing yourself for the cause is seen as the most selfless and holy act. But its not the sacrificee that gets the benefits, its the demons who sent her to die that reap the rewards and 'honor'. I am sure no just God would want people to send their loved ones to die, and if there is a God who would want that, they are unjust and shouldn't be worshipped. I'm agnostic personally.

[@Stick_and_stone]

And you know she could have grown up to be an amazing person if things had gone differently. If the soldiers had a way to make her drop the bread and get her and everyone else away from it. They could've gotten her to a foster family with a child psychologist. Excuse me while I'm just going to try and pretend that happened instead. Or pretend that she's now an angelic being, living in her own personal paradise together with other angels.

[@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer]

@@Stick_and_stone I don't know about all that. I don't think they would get her much help if they did save her when our troops hardly get the mental health care they need. They probably would have to leave her with whatever adoption/refugee group they have in that country. It would be very difficult to bring her back to the US, and I'm not sure what the mental health or even medical care system is like where she is from. I do like to believe that wherever her spirit is now, if there is an afterlife, she is at peace and forever will be.

[@vietnam_camo2004]

4 DAYS by Pandramodo Animations could be a reference to story 11. Maybe. I don't know.

[@skyure]

How can you hate someone that much that you use your own children to fight them? Either as fighters themselves, or as 'bomb carriers'? I don't understand how humans can be like that.

[@BrightWulph]

It's weaponising empathy, most people don't want to hurt children on principle. So they use that moral compas as a weapon, children are liable in their eyes because they're assets at beast and at worse "you can always make more". ETA: And in their eyes, sending their kid to die by killing "enemies" is a great blessing and honor to the family (They're probably paid handsomely for it, if they're not outright zealots).

[@courtadbobtail600]

You do it or the jihadists will erase your whole family probably. Understand that the people who make these decisions genuinely believe the children will go to paradise because of their martyrdom, or maybe they don't really, many African warlords have used child soldiers.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Savages. Inhuman monsters. Backwards societies…

[@user-yb1hl8cu7k]

Me:wait most humans are evil monsters that only care about themselves The government: always has been

[@user-uo4ro8jo4i]

Yeah, and yet people still hate what we did in Hiroshima. Forgetting that Japan was doing to THEIR OWN CHILDREN. We protected them better then their government did.

[@gothsoldier65]

War is hell, hell is hell, war never changes.

[@damagar8]

War is worse than Hell. People in Hell deserve to be there by the things they did. War is full of innocent people.

[@playernotfound9489]

Hitler was in world war 1 so.@@damagar8

[@powera2]

@@playernotfound9489 At the time he didn't do nothing though, so yeah, he didn't deserve it either.

[@playernotfound9489]

still not innocent.@@powera2

[@powera2]

@@playernotfound9489 he was innocent at the time, he literally had to fight a war because it's what everybody else did, so please :)

[@strawman5300]

the worsed parts about these encounters is that even if with a child soldier kid, if the child gets taken down befor he or her causes any deaths or injuries. The people who forced the kid in that positipon still will call it a win. either the american soldiers will not do anything and get blown up... or they do shoot, in which case it tends to put a huge dent in morall... its a very nasty form of psychological warfare.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Anything to fuel "vengeance" they wouldn't use their own unless needed, typically they would use orphans or children of other ideologies and hold parents hostage as bomb builders or "comfort"

[@-.Springtrap.-]

“But behind ever gunsight is a human being” These story’s got me to tear up a bit

[@NightL3gacy47]

This was gut-wrenching to hear. I love internet story-based content like this, but this particular video really killed a piece of me just hearing it. I feel so bad for the kids and the vets who ended up in situations like these and worse. I can't imagine what they've gone through wherever they were deployed

[@wrenhoward7777]

The last one and story 11 are probably the most heartbreaking. They were both 7/8 and innocent. The people.they were taught to trust sent them out strapped with explosives and sobbing. Honestly they didn't deserve and hadn't even had time to live. It is sad and I hate stuff like that. R.I.P to every soldier and kid that was involved with thats stuff that has died.

[@coreydee-el-oh]

Had a marine friend who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. We were really good friends and he talked to me a lot about the stuff he had to do to survive. He would routinely go through bouts of suicidal thoughts and a few attempts. But the thing that bothered him the most was having to shoot children who were armed. To anyone who wants to say anything hateful about it, it was either that or die

[@emrickazor2610]

Gods above I thought I was almost through this video, I am at like the halfway point. These stories are fucking heartbreaking.

[@kawaiiTuna]

I've been binging your content for a few days now, and this one is probably the one that's going to stick with me the most. Heartbreaking.

[@lilithcrawler-mj3xr]

The school bus one..

[@lrkeribergaard6110]

children don't deserve this

[@yemu8045]

I've never been so intrigued and fascinated by a video like this. Loved it!

[@SlavEditor]

my father, he was a soldier for the anti-soviet polish AK army in the 80s and 70s. While he didnt have any encounters with kids, he had LOTS of similar encounters like these ones. And one he cant explain without almost crying is when his friend got mushed and driven over by a soviet tank

[@BobbySliko]

Not my story, but this is about a friend's dad, Dave. He was in Vietnam as a Seabee. He was working on one of the bases when he saw a Vietnamese kid walking up to him. The kid was holding a rifle. Dave yelled at the kid in Vietnamese to stop and drop the gun, but the kid kept coming forward. He had no choice but to raise his gun at the kid. He yelled again, begging the kid to stop, and the kid raised the weapon. Dave fired, and struck the kid. He still has the occasional flashback to that moment

[@ryanewald9740]

The Geneva suggestions

[@alexaclancy8019]

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home; To claim their welcome; Come ashes in an urn

[@sethjr9815]

During my first deployment, was told by the senior nco to drop any women in a hijab if they continue to walk towards the gate, any one that point a barrel at you, melee weapons is warning shots ( these are easier since they will run away straight away)

[@biggie2568]

So the stryker story was used for the short animation/meme of "CLEAR THE ROAD". If you don't know what I mean, someone made an incredible stryker animation called "4 days" based on this story. The famous meme of a stryker shooting a girl and puking versus the m1a1 abrams ramming and killing civilians (based as shit 🗿) came from that specific reddit story im pretty sure.

[@TheGreatSeraphim]

11 is the worst, but the last one is a really tight second, only because the little girl had a lot more time to think about her fate. That and she didn't have to die, but she had been convinced not doing it had far worse consequences that she couldn't save herself by simply stopping.

[@jessicaconner1242]

Number 1 got me I still thumbs up but must leave imsorry

[@elsievanvuuren5946]

This is the type of thing that makes me cry inside, like my heart wants to help but I know I can't.. 😭😭😭

[@anahitaavestaei]

My mother never visits a section of our town’s cemetery, which is allocated to soldiers who were killed in Iran-Iraq war. She used to teach in a public middle school during the war (1980-1988) in a rural area. One day her entire class, about 30 boys between the ages of 13-15 made a pact to enlist and they did. All of them but two were killed. My mother does not have the heart to see the graves. She was a new teacher at the time and they were her first students. Many children enlisted in that war. It’s said that they lied about their age but I doubt it. They taught us about the heroism of a 13-year-old soldier, Hossein Fahmide, glorified child-soldiers in the textbooks (third grade) and martyrdom, and encouraged fighting in the “holy war” at schools, then faked surprise when the propaganda actually worked.

[@orion5401]

bros talking about dead kids with minecraft parkour in the back

[@katie85705]

My grandpa was in the veitnam (he didn't see any action, helped at the medic tents or something since he was a bit of a coward) and he'd here stories about how soldiers would come across a baby crying alone in a baby carriage. The baby would have mines under it so any soldier that went to go save the baby would blow up along with the baby. War really brings out the ugly in humanity

[@SNOW_THE_WOLF]

The horror of war

[@foxyfighterprochampion8610]

who else is a kid and hearing about these people who killed kids

[@speaktruth9989]

10:30 -13:20 wow this one made me cry Fr 😢

[@mrsjacksonstewart9266]

Ah, what lovely stories to eat my morning cereal 🙄😳 these are soemthing else huh jesus

[@FoxGoesSquee]

im normally heartless about such things, but holy hell did 11 hurt to listen to. ill admit i felt nothing to all of the stories but that one, i actually cried a little..

[@faridwiser5441]

Why r u heartless

[@swanoflove6833]

war is a cruel and terrible thing...

[@animetalk8132]

S11 there where a movie that did this maybe the wolverine

[@lrkeribergaard6110]

children don't deserve this

[@itzmifang]

Where is the link???

[@lilithcrawler-mj3xr]

Did not think I would feel sympathy..

[@idontlikechristmas2269]

God damn.

[@itzmifang]

There is no discord link 😅

[@SoulSteel]

A family was in Iraq and one time a child ran up to their vehicle and threw in a grenade they got out alive but their friend wasn't so lucky.

[@MumwaW]

A smaller hitbox

[@MayaMaya-tj7kw]

Why are we in even half of these countries. Tell me what iraq has to do with 9/11

[@elissaann-ij3tb]

Story 11 horror

[@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307]

its hard to learn to not feel empathy for this? why am i having a hard time trying not to care about this.

[@CherryStudios2]

It wouldn't be normal not to feel empathy for these situations. They're horrifying.

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

@@CherryStudios2i dont feel much empathy for strangers unless i was the one who hurt them... especially when they are telling a story about a stranger and im completely unaffected by this video

[@wilsonvfx]

wtf? there is this thing called pxychsexual... they don't feel empathy.

[@maz1071]

I don't feel empathy for them because how are you gonna invade and terrorize a country and then try to act like the victim.

[@CJO-no1]

Depends, some people are more sensitive and others are less.

[@lislovelydragons]

I’m gonna make this short u.s moreens 8 or 9 year old girl with a ied with her I did not shoot her my friend did though have a grate day y’all bye

[@skyure]

What is an IED?

[@lislovelydragons]

klutz @@skyure ied sands for . An impressived explosive device basically a diy 💣 is how a friend described it to me when I asked him. The same

[@Mimickolas]

@@lislovelydragons my guy you dont even know what an IED is

[@novosibirsk-burgersoup]

​@@Mimickolasblud said the acronym of what it meant, wdym he don't know

[@Mimickolas]

@@novosibirsk-burgersoup an impressive explosive device?

[@COSMIC_SECRET]

40mm=40 millimeter

[@elissaann-ij3tb]

Middle east Africa and China you encounter alot. It's sad.

[@DeezNutsTheChicken]

469

[@Parasiteve]

Im a rare person who wouldnt have ptsd from this. I dont actively hate kids n what not, i dont like em but yea i dont go out of my way to bother em but if i was up against child soldiers, i could do it no problem. I think its my natural dislike for humans in general. I could off a person easily but an animal? Nope. Its a weird…skill? To have. Im a woman too so thats double rare. Its not like im proud of it either, its just me lol. Id trade places with someone in this situation so they wouldnt have to suffer with it.

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

you wont be able to deal with them in a better way than trained soldiers who've fought countless times and experienced countless regrets and seen comrades die, who still couldn't recover after meeting a child soldier

[@12ww37]

Unless your neurologically wired differently, this will destroy you and will cause huge chemical changes in your body and psychological ones as well

[@playernotfound9489]

agreed.

[@almostcompletelyrandomcontent]

they have child soldiers???

[@apixieswhisper]

Yes. Iran, Yemen, Syria, and more have them. Iraq did but they signed an action plan with United Nations to stop it. Hopefully they stick by it and hopefully other countries eventually follow suit

[@RineMarthen]

"Smaller targets."

[@playernotfound9489]

big brain@annistar9693

[@apixieswhisper]

I asked my dad if he knew about child soldiers before he went to Iraq (saying that it was just a yes or no answer) and he said he kind of knew but didn’t think they would actually come across that. He then said that my uncle (grandma’s brother) fought in the Vietnam War and they had child soldiers. A girl of about 12 or 13 was bringing laundry to a tent and dropped a grenade out of her private area (yes, you read that right). Blew up the tent with the soldiers in it😭

[@LichDemonInc]

Does CoD count?

[@MidnightDrake]

I'll go ahead and share my story here. wort wort, aawubadugh, wort, wart wort, aaaawwww, wort wort wart wort warrrt demon wart wort wort wort war. Eh, tabooey.

[@FatEngineerGaming]

Wait, children are soldiers? I may be a war criminal across several multiverses, but even i can agree thats fucked up.

[@-.Springtrap.-]

Germany did it in the late stages of the war

[@Badassest]

Sorry kids. You play with guns you will be ended by them. These are adult toys.

[@aeroxea1589]

m

[@kweetniet1103]

*sees child soldier* hey look free XP

[@WoodenWedge]

why do people care so much about children

[@hikingm9720]

not sure how much sympathy i can have for people who went into the military knowing they’d potentially have to shoot children and be in fucked up situations like these.

[@ari638]

You're meant to be having sympathy for the kids

[@lunariousmoon]

Especially if they are fighting for the offending side

[@novosibirsk-burgersoup]

​@@ari638womp womp

[@Loubear23]

I hope all the a holes who snark about how homeless soldiers who deserve help, aka giving them cash on the streets, say shite ‘he’s just gonna spend it on beer’, realize it’s not their choice to numb the pain, they are left to deal with this themselves! My heart genuinely breaks for these hero’s who see shite like this 💔❤️‍🩹